John has been writing about bikes and cycling for over 30 years since discovering that people were mug enough to pay him for it rather than expecting him to do an honest day's work.
He was heavily involved in the mountain bike boom of the late 1980s as a racer, team manager and race promoter, and that led to writing for Mountain Biking UK magazine shortly after its inception. He got the gig by phoning up the editor and telling him the magazine was rubbish and he could do better. Rather than telling him to get lost, MBUK editor Tym Manley called John’s bluff and the rest is history.
Since then he has worked on MTB Pro magazine and was editor of Maximum Mountain Bike and Australian Mountain Bike magazines, before switching to the web in 2000 to work for CyclingNews.com. Along with road.cc founder Tony Farelly, John was on the launch team for BikeRadar.com and subsequently became editor in chief of Future Publishing’s group of cycling magazines and websites, including Cycling Plus, MBUK, What Mountain Bike and Procycling.
John has also written for Cyclist magazine, edited the BikeMagic website and was founding editor of TotalWomensCycling.com before handing over to someone far more representative of the site's main audience.
He joined road.cc in 2013. He lives in Cambridge where the lack of hills is more than made up for by the headwinds.
I've seen two reports of muggings near Star Lane, both last Thursday evening.
#rideswerenotmadeforcyclists
Those bikes were built to last forever, nice save!...
The driver is now getting a letter Standard dodge for when they think the primary Fob-Off isn't working. Letters are the same thing as nothing at all.
The logical conclusion, unless these CBOs are the hilarious joke we think they are (where the penalty for breaching a CBO is the same CBO), is that...
I turn 17 this year. I've had OCD my whole life. It was quite bad when I was younger and it then got better by itself without any special treatment...
Whoooooosh
Thank you 😊
Bus crashes into Post Office, no driver but 'a lot of passengers'... https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-news/live-updates-bus-crashe...
Err, when was the Pinarello Prince used in the Tour de France?